Today’s launch of Vogue Runway celebrates the nineties in all its grunge and glory, from the decade’s most important collections to the faces that defined an era. For true beauty purists, however, a study of its aesthetic influences doesn’t stop there: Because what...

Leave the kryptonite to Superman: The likes of Naomi, Linda, and Christy didn’t need it. They had other secret weapons: legs for miles, unforgettable faces, attitude, presence, and personality. They were, simply, utterly supermodels, a now overused term that meant...

Marc Jacobs’s grunge show for Perry Ellis is the one that gets remembered—it did get him fired, after all. But Jacobs wasn’t the only designer looking to the Seattle music scene at the Spring 1993 collections. Less hyped but also important were the New York shows of...

I wasn’t in the audience the day in 1992 that Marc Jacobs showed his historic grunge collection, the collection that got him fired from Perry Ellis, the clothes that Bernadine Morris, writing in The New York Times, described as “mixes everything up. . . A typical...

Vogue Contributing Editor Camilla Nickerson is responsible for some of the most indelible fashion images of the nineties, not least of all this can’t-get-it-out-of-your-head video from George Michael. I sat down with her in the magazine’s One World Trade Center...